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GOLDBUG GOOD TIMES. How Restored Confidence Works in the Business Community. The Louisville, (Ky.) Chair company has assigned with $60,000 liabilities and assets much larger. The Phoenix Lumber Company, of Houston, Texas, has made an assignment. Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton buyers at Paris, Texas, have made an assignment. The DeKalb County bank, of Maysville, Mo., is in the hands of the state bank examiner. Judgment for $6,200 has been taken against Luke D. Ralph, dealer in clothing, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. He has been in business thirty years. The estimated liabilities of Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton buyers, who failed last Monday at Paris, Tex., is $800,000, largely in Liverpool. A deed of trust covering the clothing store of O. O. Connor, Paris, Texas, amounting to $32,100, has been filed. Monaghan, general store at S. C., has been Sumpter, R. P. closed He by has the sheriff on judgments for $4,048. been in business many years. The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, of Paris, Tex., has nade an assignment. A bill for a receiver for the Christopher Columbus Building and Loan Association was filed in Chicago on Monday, by the president of the association. S. M. Young & Son., grocers at New Castle, Pa., have made an assignment. The J. R. Dayton Tablet Company, of Quincy, Ill., has asked an extension. Breeden, Talley & Co., dealers in dry goods at Richmond, Va., have made an assignment. The property and plant of the New Orleans Sewerage Company has been sold under receivership proceedings to N. W. Jordan, representing the American Loan and Trust Company, of Boston, Mass., for $83,000. A statement by the assignees of the suspended Commercial Bank. at Seima, Ala., places the liabilities at $1,000,000; assets, $52,266; subject to a reduction of $25,000 deposited during the three days The prior to the closing of the bank. books show deposits to be $174,000, almost double the amount heretofore estimated. The depositors will not realize over 20 per cent. Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton buyoffices at New Orleans, GalvesDallas, New ton, ers, with Houston, York, Liver- deeds pool and Havre, made individual of trust at Paris, Tex., Monday afternoon, this being the firm's headquarters; preferred creditors, $90,000; liabilities, $1,000,000. No official statement yet made. The Surety Building and Loan Assowhose stockholders are well of the ciation, known residents northwestern made portion of Philadelphia, has an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The firm of Knowles & Poole. shoe manufacturers, of Pittsfield, N. H., who informed their employes that business would be suspended if Bryan was elected, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors on the 16th instant for $75,000. Ex-Governor Tuttle, manufacturer of custom clothing, of Pittsfield, N. H., made his first reduction in wages during a career of thirty years of 25 per cent since a cut business down election. by Anna R. Hefferman, engaged in the millinery business at 926 Ninth street, F. has made an assignment to Rosa Downing, placing the liabilities at $1,485.96 and assets at $557.33. Adams, Jewett & Co., paper bag manufacturers at 29 to 33 Academy street, Cleveland, Ohio, has filed chattel and real estate mortgages in the recorder's office for about $130,000. The doors of the American Exchange Bank, of Buffalo, N. Y., were closed Saturday for the last time. A circular was sent to the bank depositors, in which it was announced that the directors of the bank had decided to liquidate its affairs. At a mass meeting of miners in PMillipsburg, Pa., Sunday, resolutions were adopted, declaring against any acceptance of a reduction in the mining rate, and calling upon the men who have accepted a reduction to quit work. Joseph H. Brooke, engaged at 937 Louisiana avenue in the paint business, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors.
